Queer beauty : sexuality and aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and beyond /
Davis, Whitney.
New York, N.Y. ; Chichester : Columbia University Press,
c2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: sexuality and aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and beyond -- Queer beauty: Winckelmann and Kant on the vicissitudes of the ideal -- The universal phallus: Hamilton, Knight, and the Wax phalli of Isernia -- Representative representation: Schopenhauer's ontology of art -- Double mind: Hegel, Symonds, and homoerotic spirit in renaissance art -- The line of death: decadence and the organic metaphor -- The sense of beauty: homosexuality and sexual selection in Victorian aesthetics -- The aesthetogenesis of sex: "narcissism" in Freudian theory and homosexualist culture, I -- Love all the same: "narcissism" in Freudian theory and homosexualist culture, II -- The unbecoming: Michel Foucault and the laboratories of sexuality -- Fantasmatic iconicity: Freudianism, formalism, and Richard Wollheim.
Aesthetics.
Sex.
Homosexuality.